Mark Landler
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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They have Canadair planes that are capable of spraying fire retardant on the forests.
They've also had some very large planes loaned to them by some of their European neighbors.
So there are a great deal of resources in the region.
But it has to be said, despite all that power they're bringing to this, the fires continue to burn out of control.
So it's a pitched battle.
They're bringing a lot to it, but it is far from under control yet.
Well, yeah, there have.
And the reasons for that are that the region around Bordeaux has a lot of different sort of elements to it.
There is a peninsula out by the ocean that's called the La Frere Peninsula.
That is very popular with holiday makers and people have vacation homes out there.
There are already some complaints from residents of this little town I mentioned, La Porche, which was so heavily damaged that they were sort of essentially left to fend for themselves and that other areas, perhaps more economically advantaged areas, had more protection.
We haven't confirmed those reports yet, but those are the types of things that you're beginning to hear about.
Then much closer to town, you have a series of very sensitive military installations where French companies manufacture components and propellant for the nuclear missile arsenal of France.
Yeah, I'm going to get to the vineyards.
Don't worry about that.
But yeah, there are, in fact, factories that make rocket fuel not far from Bordeaux and which lie in the path of these fires.
So you can imagine that for the authorities, the top priority is preventing the fires from getting close enough to these factories that it would raise a question about causing explosions because that would, of course, take this into a very, very different magnitude in terms of a civil emergency
It's an interesting question, and the answer might surprise you a little.
None of the vineyards so far have been directly affected by fire.
Really?
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